Anthropic Says Claude Models Are Now Fully Available on Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry)

Anthropic said on June 29 that its Claude models are now fully available on Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry), allowing enterprise users to deploy and call Claude directly within Azure while using existing Azure identity authentication, billing and governance systems, according to 36Kr. The offering currently supports Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Haiku 4.5, including features such as Prompt Caching and Extended Thinking for use cases including coding, intelligent agents and complex reasoning. Anthropic said customers can choose to run inference either on Azure or in an Anthropic-hosted environment, and the two companies will gradually align features and model availability over time.